Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c10.s5.3
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c10.s5.3
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c10.s5.3
They repeated the same list over again to maintain that each of them was not bodhisattva or that each of them was not different from bodhisattva. In short, the *Prajñāpāramitās* in order to establish *Śūnyatā* have shown that there is nothing in the world of our knowledge which has any real existence. Everything that we are conscious of has only dreamy existence, and that all the 84,000 dharmaskandhas supposed to have been preached by Buddha are only expedients (*upāyakauśalya*) adopted by him for the benefit of ignorant and deluded beings, and consequently a bodhisattva while practising the *prajñāpāramitā* should treat them as mere apparitions devoid of reality.